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Show WHAT HE HAD MI9SED. Leas ef Pleasure Waa Dying Ksntuok lan's Chief Regret. I.em Whlttaker waa one of the fnsl young bucks of esstern Kentucky. Hit motto was to gather In a share of all the "fun" going. On winter l-cni'a merry go round of dltxtness got the better of htm. and he found himself with a tough case of penumnnla. The doctor aaw that he waa about ready to kick the bucket, and had nrivat audience with him for the puriM.se of warning htm of his pros pctlvo rhsnge of resld.-nr. When Ihf doctor had finished, Letn said: "Ioc, you know that joung nag o' mine?" "Yes." said the doctor, pii.'.lcd at his patient's Indifference to death. "I was ofT.-red Ili'U for hrr three months hko." "Well?'' an hi the doctor, Inquiringly. "Oh. nothln'," said I.em. "only, doc I wisht I'd iv took II. Think of the spr. es I . i iihl a had on It hi-fore this! " IllLllllIlUI e AU'Ctlriin. Cold April Every 100 Years. French ineieroloKlats have worked out the the.uy Ihnl exceptloi.ally frigid Aprils occur ill lul.TVula of exa.ily lull jcurs. Ill April kt.:l. the gull'-lTl were Iroen and snow fell In 1'nrla.i In Aplll, l"l'3. the prlco of wood rose and people died of cold III the streets while a chronicler of the p.-iiod j wrlles: "There la snow at Versailles j and w are perishing: 'f oo'" I'arla at a season when the aim ought to ho warming ua. The north wiuda afflict af-flict us. biincliiK 11s cold from tho mountains." Iiccutnenlnry evidence Is not needed tu prove that April. 1U03, Is alsu diatliiKUlahed by low u-iupera-lures. |
